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Sebastiao Salgado-Looking Back at You [VHS]

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This video will show you how one of the great photojournalists of our time works. Salgado describes his viewpoint, shows his equipment, explains how he works (he's on location shooting for long periods), how he processes his film and the editing process he follows. His wife and editors are also interviewed. I learned how close Salgado gets to the people he photographs and why that is so important. I enjoyed watching this video and learned from it.

No doubt that Salgado is one of the most important social documentary photographers of our generation. Unfortunately, this film is very poorly organized and edited. While it contains valuable information, it's hard to watch. We do get a sense of Salgado's motivation and his working process, as other reviewers have noted. However, the film is structurally weak. It jumps back and forth in time - at times we are not sure if we're watching a film about Salgado or about the plight of workers around the world. We don't see enough of Salgado's photos and those we do see are cropped to fit the TV screen. There are compelling moments, such at when a female sugar-cane worker in Brazil articulates her conviction that machines will never cut sugar-cane as well as humans, or when she expresses her amazement at the high purchase price of Salgado's "Workers" book. However, the film adds up to a lot less than the sum of its parts. Despite being as big Salgado fan, I feel asleep during the film both times I watched it!

One of the world's leading photojournalists, he has helped shape our present perception of political and social reality. In this video he discusses his seven-year project to document the lives of workers around the world.

Dear Sir/madamm,

I need know how can I get this video here in UK and also if I can use it with the english sistem. JLSC